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That ain't Him. It's true that we really don't know what Jesus looked like. I've heard many people say that Jesus was black. I am more than sure He wasn't.

We can fairly deduce that he didn't look like a European. He was likely to have an olive hue.

In the end, it doesn't matter what He looked like. What He did far outweighs physical attributes, and renders what He looked like meaningless.

That ain't Him. It's true that we really don't know what Jesus looked like.

Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and throughout the world. (Diary 47)

I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over its enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I myself will defend it as My own glory. (Diary 48)

I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature" :Jesus, I trust in You." (Diary 327)

The two rays denote Blood and Water. the pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls. These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. These rays shield souls from the wrath of My Father. Happy is the one who dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him. (Diary 299)

Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush, lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace. (Diary 313)

By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works. (Diary 742)

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In the end, it doesn't matter what He looked like. What He did far outweighs physical attributes, and renders what He looked like meaningless.

I certainly agree with the spirit of what you've written. What Jesus has displayed to our eyes (as expressed in word and deed over physical appearance) is highly important. Isaiah (53:2b) says, "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." The crux of the issue is this: "In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form," reports Colossians 2:9, "for God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him (Col. 1:19)." Jesus made the attributes of the invisible God visible to us in human form, but not all men believe.

"The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:4)," and so men would rather look at windows, pieces of burnt toast, shrouds, et al, than at the perfect image of the Living Word of God, Christ, which God has graciously passed down to us through the Scriptures.

The Gospel of John, 1:14, makes the reality of "seeing the image" plain: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

In short it is the substance, not the appearance, that qualifies.